Author and creative director of Read Now Write Now a literary arts organisation helping more people into reading and writing

Joined January 2015
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This is what our creative writing workshops are about - lots of happy faces seeing their stories on climate change published into an anthology. #climatechampions @ace_thenorth
#Year6 were excited to see their work published for Climate Change. We are so proud of you all! #climatechampions 🌳🚗🌍
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What a super Saturday of Storytelling at Liverpool Library at our Climate Champions Celebration where our climate champions read out their stories in front of Ian Byrne MP and a very appreciative audience. Well done all, you were amazing & truly inspirational #climatechampions
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We are so proud of our fantastic climate champions who are now confirmed authors! Over the next 2 weeks we will be sharing their work online and, to start us off, here is Evelyn's story The Beginning of the Change. We do hope you like it. #climatechampions climatechampions2024.blogspo…
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As our new authors finish off writing their stories, here is a new post in our Made in Wirral blog, all about the most important part of any story, characters. madeinwirral.blogspot.com/20… #madeinwirral #creativewritingworkshops #creativewriting
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Our Made in Wirral creative writing and arts project for adult beginners is in full swing and our new authors are busy writing their stories. In this post we show you how to set scenes for your stories. #creativewriting #settingscenes madeinwirral.blogspot.com/20…
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What an honour and fantastic experience for our young climate champions at Newton le Willows Library to meet a real life climate champion - Laura who set up the Hope for the Future charity when she was a teenager. #climatechampions #creativewritingworkshops
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Over the last few weeks we have been running a creative writing and arts project called Made in Wirral with Wirral Libraries Here's the first post from our dedicated blog about the project. madeinwirral.blogspot.com/20…
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Charlie Lea, author & creative director retweeted
Had a lovely two days on the Climate Champions Programme at @WhitefieldPS with the very talented writers in Year 5! Thanks for having me, and well done on your brilliant stories! Keisha would be proud!🙌🏿🐝🌳 @ReadNowWriteNow #KeishaJonesIsAForceOfNature #JoinTheBeeSquad
The local author @Natalie_Denny_ visited us today for an English writing workshop. The children will be planning a story about a climate change hero over the next 2 days.
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A lovely first day of #climatechampions workshops @WestKirbySchool looking at what we can do to tackle climate change with Y5 & Y6 children. They're already doing things with their superb Let's Go Plastic Free mural and, as an added treat, the school runs a brilliant bakery too!
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Another super Saturday of storytelling by the new authors from our Write Up North creative writing project, this time at Chorley Library. Well done everyone! Lancashire Libraries #writeupnorth @lancslibraries
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A show of hands about climate change at Spellow Library led by the brilliant Natalie Denny who helped everyone write stories with inspiration from her book, Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature. For more info on our #ClimateChampions free courses go to tinyurl.com/bdehp25e
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What a lovely Saturday it was listening to the stories read out by lots of newly published authors as part of our Write Up North writing project at Blackburn Central Library and Blackpool Central Library. #writeupnorth
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Look at the size of the our new anthology of short stories following on from our Write Up North writing course. 52 stories by 52 new authors - a record for one of our projects. These will soon be added to library catalogues for all to enjoy. Happy reading everyone!! #writeupnorth
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**FREE ONLINE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN ON CLIMATE CHANGE** Mondays 5pm to 6.30pm from 10th June for 4 weeks and Tuesdays 5pm to 6.30pm from 11th June for 4 weeks. For more information please go to tinyurl.com/bdehp25e #climatechampions
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Ever Wanted to be an Author? We' re delivering free creative writing workshops for adult beginners as part of Wirral's Borough of Culture celebrations. For more info please use this link tinyurl.com/5e69b6b9 #madeinwirral
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Ever Wanted to be an Author? We've partnered up with Wirral Libraries to deliver free creative writing workshops for adult beginners to guide them on how to write a short story which can be included into a published anthology. #wirral #madeinwirral
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What a way to start our #Climatechampions project across LCR with Laura, the CEO of Hope for the Future climate change charity not only talking about environmental issues and what we can do but also how she decided, at an early age, to fight climate change. Truly inspirational.
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We're running free writing courses for 9-13 yo in the Liverpool City Region from May on the theme of climate change. Young people will have the chance to write a short story, see it included into an anthology and displayed in local libraries plus read out at storytelling events.
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The first post of our Write Up North blog is now here and, over the next few weeks, we will be showing everyone what we have been looking at during our creative writing courses funded thanks to Arts Council England. writeupnorth2024.blogspot.co…
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